Protect your hybrid workers with EDR solutions from Northdoor

Hybrid working is here to stay

As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that one change in particular is here to stay: hybrid work. According to the Office for National Statistics, more than eight in ten people who had to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic said they planned to continue with hybrid working when surveyed in February 2022. Between February and May 2022, the number of hybrid workers in the UK grew from 13% to 24%. And with 75% of home and hybrid workers reporting an improved work-life balance, it’s likely this trend will continue for the foreseeable future.

For businesses, hybrid working presents valuable opportunities to drive employee satisfaction, boost productivity and reduce the risk of attrition in a hot talent market. However, offering increased flexibility to the workforce can come at a price. With many more employees now moving their personal and work devices between their home and the office, the attack surface has fundamentally changed—creating new weaknesses for cyber criminals to exploit.

New trends, new cyber security threats

Even during the earliest point of the pandemic, INTERPOL reported a significant spike in the number of attacks, as criminals targeted the growing number of endpoints suddenly sitting outside the safety of the corporate firewall. Over the last two years, criminal methodologies have also evolved, with an increase in ransomware attacks that encrypt data in an attempt to extort cryptocurrency payments from victims.

With so many systems now outside the direct control of the corporate IT department, it has never been more important for businesses to ensure that laptops, desktops and mobile devices are properly hardened against cyber threats. However, many organisations have found their efforts hindered by ineffective legacy tools that lack real-time monitoring capabilities, produce unmanageably large numbers of false-positive alerts, and provide signature-based detection for only a small fraction of the actual threat landscape.

For many corporate IT teams, trying to fight back against today’s threats using yesterday’s security technology is a losing battle. Poor visibility of threats, slow and inflexible responses, and over-dependence on manual processes put the advantage overwhelmingly into the hands of the attacker. How can businesses turn the tables on cyber criminals and empower their employees to work securely from anywhere?

Enhance your endpoint security with Northdoor

Northdoor has both the expertise and the cutting-edge technology to help your organisation to enhance its security posture. Northdoor offers a comprehensive Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution that can reduce false positives by up to 80%, backed up by decades of experience in protecting valuable and sensitive data for some of the UK’s largest enterprises.

By deploying lightweight, tamper-proof agents across your IT estate, the Northdoor EDR solution delivers full visibility of security-relevant events across all your endpoints, all the time. Augmented with AI, the solution acts the moment a threat is detected—even if the host device isn’t connected to the internet. Built on more than 70 dynamic behavioural models, the Northdoor EDR solution goes beyond simple signature or hash-based blocking, helping to detect the methods preferred by a new generation of cyber criminals.

The threat of ransomware has never been greater—but with Northdoor, you can rapidly deploy an effective EDR countermeasure that will enhance the security of all your devices, even when they’re connected to untrusted networks.

For more information on how Northdoor can help you tackle your endpoint security challenges, email us, complete the form here or call us on 020 7448 8500 to arrange a free initial consultation.